How to resolve AdBlock issue? CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. – The California Highway Patrol has released the names of a woman who was seriously injured and her two children who were killed in a crash east of Clearlake Oaks earlier this week.
Archie Damayo, 38, of Shasta suffered major injuries, while her 9-year-old daughter Dara Damayo and 8-year-old son, Gem Damayo, died at the scene of the wreck, which took place Tuesday afternoon on Highway 20 near Old Long Valley Road, as Lake County News has reported.
The CHP said Archie Damayo was driving her 2001 Toyota Sienna van eastbound on Highway 20 with her two children belted in the back seat when the crash occurred.
Damayo was heading down a slight downhill grade at an unknown speed when she made what the CHP called an “unsafe turning movement.”
That caused the van to rotate to the left and enter the eastbound lane in the path of a Lake County Special Districts-owned Ford F-450 pickup driven by 42-year-old Steven Chapin of Finley, with the pickup hitting the van's right side.
Firefighters arriving a short time later declared the children deceased, while their mother was flown to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. Chapin suffered minor injuries.
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